Jens Friebe

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Jens Friebe (born December 25, 1975 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German musician and music journalist .

Jens Friebe at the BootBooHook Festival , Hanover , August 2012
Jens Friebe and drummer Chris Imler at the BootBooHook Festival, Hanover, August 2012

Career

Friebe studied musicology , English and philosophy . After playing in relatively unknown bands such as Parka and Bum Khun Cha Youth for several years , a solo performance in Hamburg led to contact with Alfred Hilsberg in 2003, at whose instigation Friebe's debut album Before After Pictures was created. It was released in March 2004 on Hilsberg 's ZickZack Records label. A song appeared previously on a zigzag -Labelcompilation.

The album CD (with the single Gespenster ) received many very good reviews (among others in Spex , Zeit, and specifically ) and was often referred to as one of the best German pop albums of 2004. Among other things, the ambiguous, German-language lyrics were praised.

The plate was in connection with the Hamburg School brought, not least because of the two producers of the album, Armin milk and even for Tocotronic , edge and To Rococo Rot active Tobias Levin . In addition to independent pop and classic singer / songwriting, the reviewers also named Electropop, Neue Deutsche Welle and Eurodisco as references for the musical style of Friebe's pieces. Friebe himself stated in an interview that in the area of ​​German-language pop music he was mainly influenced by fun punk bands such as Die Ärzte and Die Goldenen Zitronen and, on the other hand, by Foyer des Arts .

Friebe performs live solo with guitar or together with a band. He lives in Berlin and has been writing for the music magazine Intro for several years . He is also the "permanent auxiliary drummer" of the band Britta .

In June 2007 Jens Friebe published the book 52 Weekends. Texts to go through with blog posts written by him. In September 2007 his third album was released, Das mit dem Auto ist doesn't matter, the main thing is that nothing happened to you , in October 2010 his fourth album Abänder was released and in 2014 the record Nackte Angst zieh dich an we are going out .

In August 2018, Friebe shared a new single called Only Because You're Jealous Doesn't Mean You're In Love , which radio station ByteFM described as a “piano-heavy boogie pop number”. At the same time, he announced his sixth studio album Fuck Penetration , which, like its predecessor, was released on the Staatsakt label on November 2, 2018 . "Far beyond the central concern that Fuck Penetration communicates, the whole production delights from the first few notes with an anti-flirtatious approach to the audience," wrote Dietmar Dath in the feature section of the FAZ about the album.

Friebe is in a relationship with the feminist author Margarete Stokowski . His brother is the author Holm Friebe .

Discography

  • Before after after pictures (ZigZack, 2004)
  • Before after after pictures - remixes ( e.g. by Hans Nieswandt ), EP (Scheinselbständig / Kompakt , 2005)
  • In hypnosis (ZigZag, 2005)
  • Avalanche Dog - Remixes (ZickZack, 2006)
  • It doesn't matter about the car, the main thing is that nothing happened to you (ZickZack, 2007)
  • Theater - radio single (ZickZack, 2010)
  • Modify (ZigZag, 2010)
  • Naked fear get dressed, we're going out (State Act, 2014)
  • Fuck Penetration (State Act, 2018)

bibliography

  • Jens Friebe: 52 weekends. Texts to go through , Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-462-03796-8
  • Jens Friebe: 52 weekends. Critical edition , Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-940426-22-2
  • H. Friebe, Koch, Tietze (co-author): Hairy iron - The wonderful world of Luke & Trooke , agenda, Münster 1996, ISBN 3-929440-93-8 (with contributions by Jens Friebe)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement “Britta and her projects” on http://www.myspace.com/brittaband
  2. ↑ Jan Oberländer: Nonsense and Death in: Der Tagesspiegel from September 19, 2014
  3. ↑ Drugs, Sex and Tolkien: Jens Friebe announces new album - ByteFM Blog. Retrieved on August 30, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ Dietmar Dath: Album of the week: Jens Friebe: Let's not join in, but nice together . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed November 24, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Jens Friebe and the last man. Retrieved June 8, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Philipp Schwenke: Cafeteria talk with Jens and Holm Friebe: "The city as a non-swimmer pool" . In: The time . February 5, 2012, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 6, 2019]).

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personal data
SURNAME Friebe, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludenscheid